From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 11:14:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22CB37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:14:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 2B8DE81E0B; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:14:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:14:24 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Warner Losh Cc: "PSI, Mike Smith" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tracking down system freeze Message-ID: <20011206131424.T92148@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011205144450.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C0E641B.F65BAC6@mitre.org> <20011205144450.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <200112060500.fB650MM86929@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112060500.fB650MM86929@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:00:22PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Warner Losh [011205 23:00] wrote: > In message <20011205144450.L92148@elvis.mu.org> Alfred Perlstein writes: > : What you do is fold a paperclip then use it to make the last > : two pins of the ISA bus short: > > and it doesn't work on PCI bus, or any other bus than ISA (except > maybe EISA). I have a small ISA card that I have connected to the > parallel port for remote NMI generation/reset. But it is a gross > hack. It will work so long as none of the busses leading from ISA to the cpu are locked up. So it will work on a PCI system so long as the PCI bus or system bus is not locked. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message